Spiders Are Scary: Difference between revisions

'''Col. Young''': A spider.<br />

'''Lt. Scott''': It was a ''sizeable'' spider, sir. }}

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and all other [[Toku]] series have a spider [[Monster of the Week]] every so often.

** ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' makes a ''point'' of it, as [[Homage]]. The first two [[MOT Ws]] in the original series were a spider and a bat in that order, so many a modern KR will have a spider and a bat as the first monsters, or recurring enemies, or paired, or important to the story, or something. Spiders are really the ones they use to ramp up the creepy, though, so this trope is in effect whether homaging or not. Most KR monsters are [[People in Rubber Suits]], but the spider in ''[[Kamen Rider ZO]]'' was a huge horrific [[Claymation]] drider with bloodred eyes and unhingeable jaws on its otherwise human face (looks like a [[Glasgow Smile]], then opens its mouth, and... uh, you should run at that point.) ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' gave us a giant ''CGI'' spider that revived as a giant CGI drider. ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' has a Spider Dopant in the teamup with ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]],'' and its design wasn't too scary but its effect was pretty horrible.

** There's also Jeff, who Billy is absolutely terrified of, but he's really a nice guy, and just wants his dad to love him.

* In an episode of BBC kids' show ''Kerwhizz'' Twist is really scared of meeting Kaboodle's pet spider Cynthia, but being a boy he unconvincingly pretends not to be. Averted in the end when he actually meets Cynthia and discovers that she's cute and friendly.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' Princess Luna, [[Heel Face Turn|formerly]] [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Nightmare Moon]], in a rather misguided attempt to make the ponies of Ponyville no longer afraid of her, brings several large beanie baby-esque spider toys to life which doesn't help matters.

* Fang from ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', who shoots paralysis-inflicting venom beams.

** His design is a doozy. Picture a giant spider... with a human body dangling from it and sorta swaying in the wind as the spider body does... stuff. He basically has a spider five times his size ''for a head.''

* ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' parodied ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'' when henchmen of The Monarch and Baron Underbeit both deposit a tarantula and a scorpion into Dr. Venture's bedroom, unseen by each other. When the two creatures meet on Dr. V's bed, they square off against each other, as he screams in terror.

 

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